I'm working on a drawing of Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of the book that changed my life 'Ancient Futures, learning from Ladakh' and founder of Local Futures.

She's an advocate for human scale economies and has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the detrimental effects a mindless consumer culture has on indigenous rural populations upon which it dumps its subsidised agrobusiness-crops.

Check out her website at LocalFutures.org. There are many interesting reading materials and recommendations to get you informed.
And do let me know what you found and if you learned something you didn’t know yet :-)